Getty images my website - help!!!!!!!!

[midgetman]

Great - just got a letter from a company called Getty images saying I owe them £879 for one poxy small image that they claim to own that is on my website. They say going to take it to court. WTF?

Is this a scam?

Anyone else experienced this?




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[DPG]

Where did you get the picture from? Did someone else take it and you copied it? Daz

 

[telectrix]

let's see the image, then. if it's in the public domain then they ain't got much of a case.

 

[Andy78]

let's see the image, then. if it's in the public domain then they ain't got much of a case.

not so.
Public domain means an image has no copyright or copyright has lapsed. An image can still be subject to copyright even if it is publicly available, ie on the internet.

 

[midgetman]

Hi thanks for the replies.
I got it from google images - however i now know this is wrong to do but £879 for an image no bigger than a 2p ? COME ON!!!!

Im going to remove all images now.

 

[oldtimer]

Just checked mines on my 4 sites and half are mine and the other half is out of sales catalogues ie pictures of PAT or MFT or MCBs

 

[Johnny-G]

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